Sunday, July 6, 2008

I have added to my yarn stash... But not really on an impulse, to be honest. First time I saw and touched BC Garn's silk yarn, I knew I had to own some some time. I fell in love with one shade that's sort of olive-avocadoish and one that is more raspberry red. I couldn't make my mind up between the two. And then Thursday, at knit night, someone else fell in love with the same colours, and we decided to share. So, now I have 300m of each sitting on our dinner table. I can't bring myself to put it in my storage.

See why?

This will be some kind of striped scarf. Don't really know if I want it to just plain simple striped or something more fun like a scarf from Knitting New Scarves by Lynn Barr. The colours don't really need "something fun" but my fingers might.

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The second addition to my stash (still not actually in my stash but on my dinner table) is lace weight yarn from ViKanGarn.se. The yarn is dyed by a woman who lives in the same part of Sweden as I do. She only dyes 1kg/2lbs at a time and she doesn't repeat the dyes. So, every project truly comes out uniqe.

I've seen this yarn (and a thicker one) dyed in a lot of different colours. And I've liked most. And that's also where the problems have begun. What colour should I chose?

Well, Thursday I made up my mind. And I got 300g (approximately 1000m) of an offwhite, beige, lightly toffee coloured one. It'll become a shawl of some sort. Maybe a large Laminaria?